Skirt and waist holder.



PATBNTBD JUNE 1s, 1905.

C. P. PRTER SKIRT AND WAIST HOLDER.

APPLIUATION FILED. AUG. 13, 1904.

NTTED STATES Patented June 13, 1905.

CHARLES FRANCIS PORTER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SKIRT AND WAIST HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 792,553, dated J une13, 1905.

Application filed August 13, 1904. Serial No. 220,675.

1'0 LM whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES FRANCIS PoR- TER, acitizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Skirt andIVaist Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in that class of devices which maybe termed waist and skirt holders adapted for womens as well aschildrens dresses.

It has for its object to provide for the ready, effective, andconvenient holding' of the. respective parts of the dress above notedand to promote simplicity and cheapness in manufacture; and to theseends said invention consists of the structural details substantially ashereinafter more fully disclosed, and particularly pointed out by theclaim.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the preferred embodiment ofmy invention, Figure l is a view of the same as applied for use. Fig. 2shows disassembled views of the members of said invention. Fig. 3 is amodification thereof with the skirt-holding member provided with pointedor sharpened terminals. Fig. 4 is a second modification of the same withthe waistholding member as adapted for being held in place by insertionunder the meeting corset steels or stays. Fig. 5 is a view showing saidmember as held in place by the use of rivets or what may be ordinarypaper-fastenings.

In the carrying out of my invention I construct the same of two membersl and 2, the upper or waist-holder member 2 being up turned at its lowerend and preferably rectangular in general outline, thus forming anapproximately bail-like hook. Said lower or skirt-holder member l isalso bail-like in construction, but not hook-shaped, and is adapted toreceive the upturned lower end terminal of the waist-holder member orhook 2, as shown. Both the bail or lower member l and the upper memberor hook 2 have their lower and upper extremities formed into eyes orloops l a-nd 2, respectively.

In applying' the device the upper member or hook 2 may be connected tothe corset by suitably passing the corset-lacing through the uppereye-ended terminals 2 of said member in the operation of lacing' orsecuring the corset upon the body of the wearer, as shown in Fig. l, andwhereby said hook may be ad justed higher or lower, as circumstances mayrequire, in accordingly adjusting the skirt by disposing said eye-endedterminal into correspondence with the required eyelet-holes ofthe corsetand passing the lacing through said eye-ended terminals and eyelet-holesand securing the same in position, as pointed out. The lower member orbail l is secured to the skirt by inserting' through the eye-endedterminals lu thereof suitable fastenings, as rivets, or they may be inthe form of the ordinary paper fastenings and suitably passing the samethrough the skirt at the back. The waist, as a shirt-Waist, is pulleddown over the upper hook member 2 and the lower member or bail l appliedto the shirt-waist, suitably moving or forcing the waist down upon thehook member, thus infolding said waist upon the latter with therequisite stress to efectually connect the waist and skirt tog'ether andhold the same properly in place upon the body of the wearer and yet noteX- ert undue strain thereon, but only to that eX- tent Which would nottend to tearor impair the lightest or thinnest dress material. In themodification as eXemplied by Fig. 3 the lower eye-ended terminals abovedescribed are omitted and said terminals tapered to shalrp points, as at3, to penetrate said materia In the modification as disclosed by Eig. 4Lthe upper hook member has its upper end reversely bent or formed with ahook 4 eXtend ing downward oppositely to the lower end hooked portion ofsaid hook member, as previously described. By this construction theeye-ended terminals, as above noted, remaining intact are adapted to beinserted edgewise in between and behind the fastening corsetsteels andthen be turned to present their eye portions Hat against the latter andthus held or secured in position unaided by other fastenings. In Fig. 5the same form of upper hook member is shown as having rivets 5 or rangedin the plane of said upper' end terminal and beyond the plane ot' saidbail-lile member itself, and a lower eye member also of bail-likeoutline and eeetive for connection to the aforesaid bail-like member.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speeilieation in thepresence of two snbscribing` Witnesses.

CHARLES FRANCIS PORTER.

'Vitnesses:

H. S. Woon A. J'. MGETTRICK.

